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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Can you nest subroutines in C?
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Date: 29 Jun 89 03:28:44 GMT
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In article <4495@crash.cts.com> wade@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
writes: 
> So far I have found nothing I could do in C that I could not
>do in M2.  To me this is the test of a Language.

Not really a test of a language at all. Can you have "procedure pointers"
in M2 (i.e., variables that hold addresses of subroutines, and that get called
just by referencing the variable, and that of course can be assigned to)?
As I recall Pascal did not allow that.  This is one of the features of C that 
currently I could not live without.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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